Twitter for PC and Mac

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• By KernelG

  3

  What a comeback!

  Twitter forced me to switch to another app (Tweetbot) on the desktop, after they abandoned their old client app years ago. What a pleasure it is to come back to this new app. It's faster in every way, and of course, supports all official Twitter functions. Why only 4 stars? I have run into the bug mentioned in other reviews: Randomly on launch, maybe 1 out of 10 times, my window size and position has reset to default. Also, we need more keyboard shortcuts to get around in the app. I'd like to be able to hit Escape to close a media window, and bind that to a mouse button. Needing to use Command-W to put away an image makes it more likely to accidentally close the main window if it has focus, and then you've quit the app when you didn't want to. Still, highly recommended. This is the Twitter app you should be using, with one or ten accounts. Welcome back. UPDATE: Since version 8.6 or so, the chance for window size and position to reset to default has greatly increased. It has become extremely annoying now, and nothing else has improved. So I'm removing one star until someone at Twitter actually listens to user feedback.

  
  
• By EpaL

  5

  Promising but lacks features / too many bugs

  After years of neglect, it's truly a relevation to have Twitter's first-party client back for PC. Unfortunately this shininess doesn't come without some significant drawbacks. It's unclear if the issues are with Microsoft or with Twitter but anoying bugs and lack of polish persist. For example, every time I connect or disconnect my AirPorts, it crashes. There is also no easy keyboard shortcut to dismiss the media player like there is in other clients. When composing a Tweet, if you paste in a URL, it displays the preview underneath but you can no longer scroll up to see the Tweet you are responding to. None of these issues are show-stoppers but together they add up to an overall buggy and unpolished experience.

  
  
• By Iraê Brasil

  3

  Fair app, uninstalled because using on Safari is better

  The app is nice, I like having notifications for replies, and it is nice to use it when you are actually consuming your timeline. Unfortunately there are major flaws. The video player keeps having bugs and snags, regular expected keyboard navigation don't work (hitting esc to close image/video popup, for instance) and opening links sent from friends is at a whole new level of breaking my flow, and there is no option to disable it. To clarify: Say I am on my timeline, someone sends me a link to a twitter thread, I click and it takes over the app instead of opening in Safari. Fine. But I decide I'll look into it later. I am forced to abandon th thread to go back to what I was doing. And sometimes more than one people send different stuff while in a group chat or something, and you can't keep tabs to each of the stuff to look as you would do normally on Safari. Since there is no option to disable the integration, I decided it is better to use third party applications for timeline reading and uninstall the official Twitter app, as it is the only one that takes over the links sent. This way my flow is not interrupted and everything works just fine. It is unfortunate that twitter aggressive use of caching and progressive app tech keeps breaking twitter on the web too, but that's a conversation to another day.

  
  
• By ArtisIan_

  4

  Great! But...

  The Twitter app has been useful for managing my account without taking up insane amounts of memory in a web browser. However, there are a few glaring issues that keep me from giving this 5 stars. First and foremost, the Messages tab is broken. It can't stay focused on one message. I click on a conversation and begin typing, and a few seconds later it boots me back to the "No Message Selected" screen. This does not happen on iPhone, but it does happen on iPad as well. It is very annoying and I hope it can be fixed soon. Secondly, sometimes when switching between tabs, the ability to refresh by hitting Cmd-Shift-R is disabled, and I have to click in and out of a Tweet to get it back. That's minor compared to the Messages issue, but something I'd still like to see get fixed.

  
  
• By Appreviewer2033

  1

  It refreshed your timeline very slowly

  So i don't mind using twitter from my browser (tweetdeck) but i just wanted to have one less thing i have to sign into when i restart my browser and i am using twitter spaces more and more and twitter doesn't seem to give much love to tweetdeck so when spaces does come to the desktop i'm sure it will come to the twitter app well before (if ever) tweetdeck. But the HUGE issue i'm having with the app is how often it refreshes your timeline. So far i have a huge # of tweets missing in my timeline because it hasn't refreshed my timeline for over 40 minutes. The way i used twitter i need refreshed to happen quickly (tweetdeck is almost instant). I've searched in the settings for the app and i can't find anywhere where you can increase the refresh rate and there is no way to do a manual refresh as far as i can tell (other than closing the app & restarting it). Pretty sad!!!